Each event focuses on a different architecture-related theme, developed by eminent personalities from the international architectural, planning and construction fields.
Debates, exhibitions, tours and networking events make the UIA Congresses the perfect meeting place for experts, colleagues, friends, and students of architecture.
Congress bids are submitted to the UIA General Assembly and selected by vote six years in advance of the event.
List of congresses from 1948 to 2026On 23 November 2018, the UIA published a Memorandum of Understanding[5] with UNESCO on the new joint label World Capital of Architecture.
A program and a series of major events take place in the respective world capital throughout the calendar year.